# brioche
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from French brioche.

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ˈbriːɒʃ/, /briːˈɒʃ/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɒʃ

### Noun

brioche (countable and uncountable, plural brioches)
* (countable and uncountable) A type of light sweet pastry or bun of French origin.
    Hypernym: viennoiserie
    Coordinate terms: croissant, pain au chocolat, Danish pastry
** 2004, Harold McGee, chapter 10, in On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen, Scribner, →ISBN:French brioche dough is especially rich in butter and eggs. It's often retarded […] for 6–18 hours to stiffen it, then rolled out and briefly rested.
** 2017, Kate Dunn, The Dragonfly, Twickenham: Aurora Metro Books, →ISBN, page 304:She sat him at the table in the saloon, then unobtrusively she made him tea and brought him slices of brioche spread with lock keeper’s honey.
* (countable) A knitted cushion for the feet.

#### Derived terms

* bruffin

#### Translations
### References

* ↑ “brioche”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

### Further reading

* brioche on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

## French
### Etymology

From Old French brier (“to break”) +‎ -oche; compare French broyer.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bʁi.jɔʃ/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

brioche f (plural brioches)
* (baking, cooking) brioche (type of light sweet pastry or bun of French origin)
** (Can we date this quote?), Attributed to Marie Antoinette:
    Qu’ils mangent de la brioche.Let them eat cake.
* (figuratively) gaffe, blunder
    Synonyms: gaucherie, bévue, boulette
* (informal) paunch, belly
    Synonym: bide

#### Derived terms

* avoir une brioche au four
* brioché

#### Descendants

* → Catalan: brioix
* → English: brioche
* → German: Brioche
* → Hungarian: briós
* → Ido: briocho
* → Italian: brioche
* → Japanese: ブリオッシュ (buriosshu)
* → Portuguese: brioche
* → Sicilian: brioscia

### Further reading

* “brioche”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
* brioche on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia $^{fr}$

## Italian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French brioche, from Old French brier (“to break”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /briˈɔʃ/$^*$
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɔʃ

### Noun

brioche f (invariable)
* a croissant, Danish pastry, or other sweet bun
    Synonyms: cornetto, croissant

### See also

* cornetto m

### Anagrams

* borchie, boriche, chiorbe

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Borrowed from French brioche.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /bɾiˈɔ.ʃi/ [bɾɪˈɔ.ʃi], (faster pronunciation) /ˈbɾjɔ.ʃi/
* (Brazil) IPA: /bɾiˈɔ.ʃi/ [bɾɪˈɔ.ʃi], (faster pronunciation) /ˈbɾjɔ.ʃi/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /bɾiˈɔ.ʃe/ [bɾɪˈɔ.ʃe], (faster pronunciation) /ˈbɾjɔ.ʃe/
* (Portugal) IPA: /bɾiˈɔ.ʃɨ/, (faster pronunciation) /ˈbɾjɔ.ʃɨ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /bɾiˈɔ.ʃɨ/, (faster pronunciation) /ˈbɾjɔ.ʃɨ/
** (Northern Portugal) IPA: /bɾiˈɔ.t͡ʃɨ/, (faster pronunciation) /ˈbɾjɔ.t͡ʃɨ/
* Hyphenation: bri‧o‧che

### Noun

brioche m (plural brioches)
* (cooking) brioche (type of bun)

### References

* ↑ “brioche”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
* ↑ “brioche”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

## Spanish
### Etymology

Borrowed from French brioche.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbɾjot͡ʃe/ [ˈbɾjo.t͡ʃe]
* Rhymes: -otʃe
* Syllabification: brio‧che

### Noun

brioche m (plural brioches)
* brioche (type of bun)

### Further reading

* “brioche”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10